JAY – Selectmen are scheduled to get an update on successful local access channels in Farmington and Rumford Monday.

The board, meeting at 6 p.m. at the Community Building, is also expected to consider a citizen-initiated petition, maintenance supervisor appointment and town report dedication.

Town Manager Ruth Marden said she checked with representatives of the Mount Blue cable access channel serving Farmington and Wilton, and the channel in Rumford.

The director of the Mount Blue channel just became full-time and volunteers run the Rumford channel, Marden said.

The Mount Blue channel also gets some equipment money through the BeeLine Cable company franchise agreements.

Selectmen would like Channel 7, which serves Jay, Livermore and Livermore Falls, to provide coverage of town and school government meetings and community events.

Channel 7 Director Mac Haynes mentioned at a December meeting that he would do a trial run of providing coverage of Jan. 5 selectmen’s meeting.

Haynes had told selectmen then that when Jay and Livermore Falls selectmen allowed tapes of the Musicians of Maine to air, the channel became a public, education and government channel under the Federal Communication Commission guidelines. It had previously been considered an educational and governmental channel.

Jay selectman Parker Kinney also noted that the channel needed 30-plus adults to run successfully, six cameras and somebody to operate them.

People interested in working in some way with the station were asked to come to a 9 a.m. meeting on Saturday, Jan. 24 in the rear of the Community Building.

In other business, Marden said she would recommend that town mechanic Larry Melcher be appointed maintenance supervisor.

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